Small to medium enterprises are the engine room of the economy. They employ a staggering 99.8 of the Australian workforce.1 Yet they are also the most vulnerable.2 For example, they are vulnerable to: fluctuating banking policy and behaviour; inability to fund growth and innovation; the buying and marketing power of large enterprise; the ebb and […]
Root cause analysis is the process for determining the real cause of a problem, malfunction, error or oversight, so that the situation can be remedied and not occur again. Root cause analysis practices can vary according to the category, for example safety, production, process, failure and systems. However, all those categories are ultimately created operated […]
Sakichi Toyoda created the 5 Why’s as a technique to identify root causes of defects in manufacturing and production. The example used in Wikipedia illustrates how that works: The vehicle will not start. (the problem) Why?- The battery is dead. (First why) Why?- The alternator is not functioning. (Second why) Why?- The alternator belt has […]
